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Nesrin U Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.😒 Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/25 Full Review Liam D It has a great cast but the story isn’t that interesting Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/05/24 Full Review Audience Member enjoyable historical/bio-pic my 1 complaint? Sutherland is horribly miscast as Burroughs he hasn't the height or the skinniness of the real Burroughs. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Enjoyed the movie! A nice footnote of the Beat Generation. The movie was more about Joan Vollmer and her relationship with the rest of the gang (Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, and William S Burroughs). If your expecting a more in depth story about the Beat Generation or any of its members, you'll be disappointed. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member What this film is trying to achieve is to give a picture of the Beat scene before any of the writing was done. Centered around Joan Wollmer Adams' NYC apartment, the beat triumvirate are assembled and serious. Lucien Carr's murder of David Kemmerer is turned into a novel co-written by Burroughs and Kerouac (not released till after Carr's death, probably for legal reasons). Kill Your Darlings, by the way, treats this time period also. The Mexico, D.F. visit plays up the romantic involvement between Carr and Joan. Courtney Love actually does a decent job in this movie, but it is far from historical. So, the claims of "a true story" are exaggerated. In terms of production quality, even with first string actors, the film has at times a college-movie feel to it. Ironic that Ms. Love, who in the blogosphere might have had a hand in Cobain's untimely demise, is herself cast as a victim in a creative couple. By the way, all the time spent with Joan (Love) typing and writing is sort of interpolated. Whatever she may have been she wasn't a beat poet. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member An impressive cast. That's about it. Unless you know the story of these figures already or saw another 'beat' related movie, then you will be lost and not care. This is mostly due to total lack of character backstory or development. I wonder how they managed to even get this cast together for this movie. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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